On 10 June 2014 09:20, Markus Krötzsch <mar...@semantic-mediawiki.org> wrote:
> The class "city" is used for "relatively large and permanent human > settlement[s]" [1], which does not say much (because the vagueness of > "relatively"). Maybe we should even wonder if "city" is a good class to use > in Wikidata. Saying that something has been awarded city status in the UK > (Q1867820) has a clear meaning. Saying that something is a "human > settlement" is also rather clear. But drawing the line between "village", > "city" and "town" is quite tricky, and will probably never be done uniformly > across the data. > > Conclusion: if you are looking for, say, human settlements with more than > 100k inhabitants, then you should be searching for just that (which I think > is basically what you also are saying below :-). OSM has had a lot of problems with this as well, I think - labelling something as a "city" is one of those very slippery terms that everyone thinks is obvious but never quite agrees on what the obvious bit is :-) I wonder if we should think about how best to make sure people know this. Perhaps there is a role for the "human-readable" pages to have disambiguation-type notes on them? "If you are aiming to do a search based on "instances of 'city'", we recommend you try "instances of 'human settlement'" instead..." -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
